I'm brand new to the forum and still pretty new to linux, so please go easy on me as I attempt to correctly navigate all the rules and such.
Here is my problem... I have been using an old desktop for casual gaming. I had an nvidia card in it for the past year or so. I just got an old 6970, and I am trying to get that working and diagnose some issues. The desktop environment looks as if I had the nvidia card but hadn't yet installed the driver. I've done some research on drivers and found that, apparently, the driver for the 6970 is just supposed to load? I am stumped. it doesn't seem to have a driver functioning properly and I am not yet able to make sense out of the inxi outputs. I'm really hoping someone won't mind helping me out. Thank you in advance.
not sure what info will help, but please ask and I will do what I can to get it done correctly.
Here is the output of inxi -Fxxxrz, followed by the output from just an inxi -G
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System:
Kernel: 5.15.0-73-generic x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 11.3.0
Desktop: Cinnamon 5.6.8 tk: GTK 3.24.33 wm: muffin vt: 7 dm: LightDM 1.30.0
Distro: Linux Mint 21.1 Vera base: Ubuntu 22.04 jammy
Machine:
Type: Desktop Mobo: ASRock model: 970 Extreme4 serial: <superuser required>
UEFI: American Megatrends v: P2.80 date: 08/05/2015
CPU:
Info: quad core model: AMD Phenom II X4 965 bits: 64 type: MCP
smt: <unsupported> arch: K10 rev: 3 cache: L1: 512 KiB L2: 2 MiB L3: 6 MiB
Speed (MHz): avg: 800 min/max: 800/3400 boost: disabled cores: 1: 800
2: 800 3: 800 4: 800 bogomips: 27141
Flags: ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4a svm
Graphics:
Device-1: AMD Cayman XT [Radeon HD 6970] vendor: PC Partner driver: radeon
v: kernel pcie: speed: 5 GT/s lanes: 16 ports: active: DVI-I-1
empty: DP-1,DVI-D-1,HDMI-A-1 bus-ID: 01:00.0 chip-ID: 1002:6718
class-ID: 0300
Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 1.21.1.4 driver: X: loaded: ati,radeon
unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,vesa gpu: radeon display-ID: :0 screens: 1
Screen-1: 0 s-res: 1920x1080 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 508x285mm (20.0x11.2")
s-diag: 582mm (22.9")
Monitor-1: DVI-1 mapped: DVI-I-1 model: 40H4030 serial: <filter>
res: 1920x1080 hz: 60 dpi: 70 size: 698x392mm (27.5x15.4")
diag: 1021mm (40.2") modes: max: 1920x1080 min: 720x400
OpenGL: renderer: AMD CAYMAN (DRM 2.50.0 / 5.15.0-73-generic LLVM 15.0.6)
v: 4.3 Mesa 22.2.5 compat-v: 3.1 direct render: Yes
Audio:
Device-1: AMD SBx00 Azalia vendor: ASRock driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel
bus-ID: 00:14.2 chip-ID: 1002:4383 class-ID: 0403
Device-2: AMD Cayman/Antilles HDMI Audio [Radeon HD 6930/6950/6970/6990]
vendor: PC Partner driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel pcie: speed: 5 GT/s
lanes: 16 bus-ID: 01:00.1 chip-ID: 1002:aa80 class-ID: 0403
Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.15.0-73-generic running: yes
Sound Server-2: PulseAudio v: 15.99.1 running: yes
Sound Server-3: PipeWire v: 0.3.48 running: yes
Network:
Device-1: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet
vendor: ASRock driver: r8169 v: kernel pcie: speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 1
port: c000 bus-ID: 07:00.0 chip-ID: 10ec:8168 class-ID: 0200
IF: enp7s0 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 1.93 TiB used: 16.37 GiB (0.8%)
ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Samsung model: HD103SI size: 931.51 GiB
speed: <unknown> type: N/A serial: <filter> rev: 1118 scheme: MBR
ID-2: /dev/sdb vendor: Hitachi model: HDS721010CLA332 size: 931.51 GiB
speed: 3.0 Gb/s type: HDD rpm: 7200 serial: <filter> rev: A3EA scheme: MBR
ID-3: /dev/sdc vendor: PNY model: CS900 120GB SSD size: 111.79 GiB
speed: 6.0 Gb/s type: SSD serial: <filter> rev: 0613 scheme: GPT
Partition:
ID-1: / size: 108.98 GiB used: 16.36 GiB (15.0%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sdc3
ID-2: /boot/efi size: 512 MiB used: 6.1 MiB (1.2%) fs: vfat
dev: /dev/sdc2
Swap:
ID-1: swap-1 type: file size: 2 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) priority: -2
file: /swapfile
Sensors:
System Temperatures: cpu: 36.0 C mobo: N/A gpu: radeon temp: 32.5 C
Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A
Repos:
Packages: apt: 2292
No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list
No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/amdgpu-proprietary.list
Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/amdgpu.list
1: deb https://repo.radeon.com/amdgpu/22.20/ubuntu jammy main
Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/google-chrome.list
1: deb [arch=amd64] https://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/ stable main
Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/official-package-repositories.list
1: deb http://packages.linuxmint.com vera main upstream import backport
2: deb http://mirror.us-ny2.kamatera.com/ubuntu jammy main restricted universe multiverse
3: deb http://mirror.us-ny2.kamatera.com/ubuntu jammy-updates main restricted universe multiverse
4: deb http://mirror.us-ny2.kamatera.com/ubuntu jammy-backports main restricted universe multiverse
5: deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ jammy-security main restricted universe multiverse
Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/rocm.list
1: deb [arch=amd64] https://repo.radeon.com/rocm/apt/5.2 ubuntu main
Info:
Processes: 227 Uptime: 12m wakeups: 0 Memory: 15.6 GiB
used: 1.46 GiB (9.4%) Init: systemd v: 249 runlevel: 5
target: graphical.target Compilers: gcc: 11.3.0 alt: 11/12 Shell: Bash
v: 5.1.16 running-in: gnome-terminal inxi: 3.3.13
Thank you for taking the time to look this over. My apologies if this is just a dumb oversight on my part.